Phallic Weapon

aka: Suck My Gun

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"This is my pistol, along with my gun. With one I kill people, with both I have fun."

"No, she's absolutely right," said Zeb, patting the enormous pistol at his hip. "This is a penis substitute. After all, if I could kill at a range of thirty meters with my penis, I wouldn't need to carry this thing around, now would I?"

After all, most of them are vaguely phallic (any object longer than it is wide = phallic), they penetrate human flesh, and killing people is a sign of virility. In the case of guns, they even "ejaculate" bullets, while swords tend to have a suggestive shape, guard positions where the hilt is held crotch height, and thrusting attacks. Even better if they are combined (bayonets on guns are the simplest applications of this, as well as any syringe-like weapon).

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Anime & Manga

The infamous 'Obari pose'◊ (named after the man who popularised it, the legendary animator/director Masami Obari) is a common shot in action anime (especially '80s/'90s mecha shows) where a warrior readies themselves for battle by brandishing a gigantic sword or gun at approximately crotch height, with the tip pointed diagonally towards the camera. It's exactly as phallic as it sounds, and the source of an enormous number of off-colour jokes about a particular era and genre of animation.

In Death Note Mello keeps a gun down the front of his trousers. Down the front of his laced, skintight, leather trousers. Considering this is seen after giving his challenge to Near, one wonders if he's compensating for something else too...

Happens oh-so often in Gunsmith Cats. Unsurprising, given the two themes of the show are "guns" and "fanservice."

And from s-CRY-ed: "It's thick, it's hard, and it's coming to get you!"

YuYu Hakusho example: Sensui's Kazuya personality's gun-arm. What he does to Yusuke with it looks ONE HELL of a lot like Prison Rape. This is lampshaded in the dub:

Kazuya:[pressing gun to Yusuke's face] Open your mouth, and close your eyes...

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro has a killer keep a ridiculously long revolver down the front of his pants. The guy is a huge parody of Eagleland attitudes, so he's not the most subtle person around.

In Gamaran there's Zenmaru's great katana, Sadanaga: he's extremely proud of its size and power, gets annoyed if anyone comments on it and he's a bit flustered by Shingo's Onidachi (a 4 meter long spear), stating that's even bigger than his sword...

In Bleach, Szayel releases his Resurreccion form by swallowing his sword.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi keeps his sword sheathe hanging between his legs.

Pesche keeps his sword in his loincloth.

In Black Cat, after smashing Train into the wall, Creed rants about how his disappointment and anger toward Train has caused his (imaginary) sword to grow enormous in strength and size. While holding a rose between his teeth, no less.

In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the Daigunzan is a huge robot shaped like a ship, that has a huge blade-like part attached to the groin, shaped like the front part of a ship. During the Battle For Teppelin, it rams itself into Dekabutsu's huge hammer, pointy end first, only to leave it stuck and detonate it, creating an opening for Gurren-Lagann to enter. This is not even getting into all the drills the protagonist uses to penetrate the heavens.

Gintama: Is that a Neo-Armstrong cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon? Such a nice replica.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: It seems that the happier Mami is, the bigger her magical rifles become, such as during episode 3 after Madoka says the she wants to be by her side. The sandworm Witch that kills her in that very same episode embodies this trope even better.

When Kyouko has to kill Oktavia in episode 8, it seems that her chain-javelin is far bigger than usual. Her target is Sayaka.

Sayaka's lashing out by hitting a Witch to a bloody mess can be seen as venting out her sexual frustration. Because she did not get the guy.

In Berserk, Word of God mentioned in an interview that Guts' BFSs not only represent his strength and determination, but also his virility. So it's no surprise that he managed to get Casca pregnant during their first time together.

From InuYasha, the Tetsusaiga. Its normal state is a normal rusted sword, but when pulled out, it becomes larger with hair coming out of the hilt, with various energy attacks coming out of it for dealing death blows. Oh, and Inuyasha often holds it at crotch level.

In Transformers Armada Megatron's BFG didn't strap to his arm or shoulder like it did in most Transformers installments. It protruded from his hip. And just to drive the phallic nature of it home, he had to grab it with one hand to aim it. The only way it could have been more obvious is if they'd made it a pump-action.

In Gate, the peasants describe the Panzerfaust as looking like a giant steel cock.

Arts

On Hieronymus Bosch 's "Hell" panel of "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" there is a long knife with two ears on the side resembling a penis and testicles.

George Carlin's "Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf" routine discussed this trope, with heavy use of the word "dick".

"You don't need to be a sociologist or a political scientist to see the Bigger Dick Foreign Policy at work. Goes something like this: 'What? They have bigger dicks?! BOMB THEM!!' And the bombs and the bullets and the rockets are all shaped like dicks. It's a subconscious desire to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called 'fucking with people'!"

Used hilariously for a supremely ridiculous villain in Doom Patrol, who was ridiculed all his life for having a small penis and thus built a giant cannon to attach to his crotch and called himself, what the hell, Codpiece. The horror comes in when said super villain is defeated by a transsexual heroine... who has the power to dissolve objects.

Towards the end of Preacher, Herr Starr develops the disturbing (and hilarious) habit of holding his gun over his (penisless since a dog attack) crotch and repeating "Doom cock... Doom cock..."

When Superman rescues Lana from Lex Luthor's mooks in an early Post-Crisis comic, he faces down a Mook with a huge bazooka and asks "Overcompensating for something there, fella?"

Given its premise as warfare by Fanservice, it's not surprising that one of Tank Vixens' world-building bonus comics shows off a bunch of weapons that embrace the trope wholeheartedly. Though the ones that look like they could be used in the bedroom don't appear in the main comics, the fairly ordinary-looking gauss rifle and the hip-fired BFG are seen from time to time.

Gold Digger: Brianna manages to design a waist-supported laser cannon with side-supported plasma orbs... without realizing the implications until her entire family and their friends point out her big throbbing—

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West: Tiger faces off with a masked gunslinger cat who turns out to have a more powerful slingshot. Tiger's slingshot goes limp in response.

Films — Live-Action

Experimental montage film A Movie makes use of this trope for what's either a gag or a lampshading of the whole concept. One montage starts with a submarine captain looking through a periscope. The film then cuts to a sexy woman in bra and panties. The next clip shows the submarine firing a torpedo. Then there's a clip of an atomic bomb explosion. The sexual imagery is not subtle.

Bonnie and Clyde has a very sexually charged scene where Bonnie checks out Clyde's gun.

Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet) in Angel Heart is killed by gunshot. The shot in question comes from a gun stuffed into her nether regions. We thankfully don't get to see the murder, only the aftermath.

The Man with the Golden Gun is one of the more obvious examples. Scaramanga's lover explains that he only makes love to her before he kills someone with his golden gun, and one scene involves him suggestively caressing her with it as she lies naked in bed. The opening credits to quite a few James Bond films involve the silhouettes of naked women and guns.

Tank Girl. The title character has a moment loving on the gun of the tank she ganks from Water & Power. To the tune of Shaft, no less. And later on, explicitly called out as she rides the cannon up to the window of a truck. "Feeling a little inadequate?"

In the Line of Fire. When Agent Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) misses a jump and ends up dangling from a rooftop. Mitch Leary (John Malkovitch) pops up overhead, prompting Horrigan to take aim despite his failing grip. Leary teases Horrigan's pistol a bit before deciding that he'll take care of him later, and helps Horrigan to a nearby fire escape.

That scene in Videodrome where James Woods grows a vagina and then starts masturbating it with a gun.

The Pirate King is asked "Is that a knife in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" It turns out it is a knife in his pocket, as he pulls it out and throws it into the wall beside the woman's head. However, he then demonstrates that he is also pleased to see her.

Mabel is trying to rally the policemen to assist her. She mentions that, among their other crimes, the pirates are "cop-killers." The Sergeant's billy-club immediately goes limp, like a... well, you know.

In the first dream level of Inception, Mr. Eames produces a grenade launcher from his Hammerspace, blows away a group of projections and says "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." Those who do not feel that this implies "I can also do this with my penis" are hereby commended on the cleanliness of their minds.

Psycho features the infamous shower scene—the phallic-shaped knife, repeatedly stabbing Marion. Not to mention the killer having sublimated his sexual repression into murderous urges.

Rear Window's Jeff uses a telescopic lens (obviously longer than the binoculars he was previously using) to further his voyeurism and subsequent violation of his neighbor's privacy.

In the Scream movies, the serial killer targets young women, simultaneously acting seductive towards them and trying to stab them with a knife.

There is a clip from the Swedish movie Kopps where a police officer throws his gun into the air, opens his pants, catches the gun in the open fly, then buckles his belt over the gun. He then guns down two criminals using pelvic thrusts. Then takes out the third by hacky-sacking the gun and kicking it into mook's face.

Death Wish. While at a gun range in Tuscon, Arizona, Paul Kersey mentions to his client Ames that he was a Conscientious Objector during the Korean War.

Hertz tortures a hooker by shooting up bottles in her room with his Hand Cannon, then pressing the hot barrel against her thighs, eventually reaching between her legs with it. Fortunately the hero turns up.

Soap: I brought weapons as well. Eddie: What do you mean, weapons? Soap:[pulls a bundle from his coat and unrolls it, revealing large knives] These. Eddie: Jesus! [grabs the bundle and rerolls it] Let's keep them covered up, eh? Couldn't you get anything bigger? Soap:[pulls a big ass machete from his trousers] What, like that? What do you think? Eddie: ...I think you need help.

A subtle example to be found in Island of Lost Souls: Mad Scientist Dr. Moreau wears his revolver holstered at the front so that the barrel is somewhat tucked between his thighs, the butt jutting outwards from his groin. Apparently this was a deliberate choice by openly gay actor Charles Laughton. Amusingly, since the gun is worn barrel inwards, butt out, this makes it a weird reversePhallic Weapon.

Deadpool: Theatrical posters show the Merc-with-the-Mouth conspicuously brandishing a Desert Eagle right in front of his crotch, similar to the Duke Nukem Forever video game example.

Jack Reacher. Reacher compares the frustration of not being able to kill to sexual frustration. When he's saying this, a flashback showns Sociopathic Soldier Barr in Iraq, pushing a knife through a blanket draped over his crotch.

Soldier of Orange. The protagonist has just become a bomber pilot and boasts of all the German cities he can bomb, while having sex with his girlfriend. Unfortunately he has a premature 'explosion' before completing his list.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Watched by a wide-eyed Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra appears to be reaching into the trousers of her American suitor, saying "Let me touch it; it's so big!" only to remove a huge Bowie knife.

Let's Get Harry (1986). A group of construction workers, financed by a gung-ho businessman and advised by a mercenary, go down to Columbia to rescue a colleague. The mercenary, who's given them strict instructions not to try bringing guns into the country, walks into their hotel room, grabs the businessman by the crotch and says, "I want you to give me this." While the others are gaping at this apparent Ho Yay, the businessman gives a shamefaced grin and produces a 9mm pistol from his underpants.

Mad Max. Toecutter asserts his authority over Johnny the Boy (implied to be his male lover) by making him suck the barrel of his shotgun, telling him, "Keep your sweet, sweet, mouth shut!"

In The Iron Dream, Feric Jaggar's weapon, The Great Truncheon of Held, also known as the Steel Commander, is described in unambiguously phallic terms. And then Feric Jaggar forces his new underling to kneel and kiss it.

In Gate- Thus the JSDF Fought There, the Panzerfaust 3 used by Japanese soldiers to wound a powerful dragon is described as the "Rod of Steel" by natives of the Special Region beyond the Gate. In the manga adaptation, the weapon has a suggestive outline around it as one refugee says it looks just like a man's thing.

In the Harry Potter universe, there is some phallic symbolism around the Elder Wand, legendarily the most powerful and dangerous wand in the world. Hermione (notably, a female character) says that the idea of one wand being better than another is nonsense and that "some wizards just claim to boast that theirs are bigger and better." In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, it's stated that no witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand (that is, only men ever have) and invites the reader to "make of that what you will."

Not-Baragon from NES Godzilla Creepypasta sports a minigun that comes out of its crotch. He also happens to be a bizarre bipedal creature with no arms and an elephant's skull for a head. And he's not the strangest monster in the story...

Used deliberately and disturbingly in Six Feet Under when a carjacker forces Dave to suck on his gun and threatens to shoot him with it before running away. In a show where Anyone Can Die, it seemed like he might pull the trigger.

In Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the government implants an 'inhibitor chip' in vampire Spike that prevents him from biting anyone, a condition that's compared rather tongue-in-cheek to impotence. He's delighted when someone gives him a pistol as he can at least threaten people, but then finds the chip stops him from even aiming it. Spike's response is to demand a bigger gun.

In Season 3 of Game of Thrones, Joffrey fires his crossbow from the hip, and the camera angle clearly implies this trope. This is after he has lovingly shown and described it to his fiance, and he has already shown that he gets turned on by violence and killing. He later uses the crossbow to murder a prostitute for kicks.

Farscape. In "Coup by Clam" John Crichton is Disguised in Drag to infiltrate a brothel. When it's time to resort to violence, he gets up on a table and asks loudly, "Does anyone else here, have one of these, under their skirt?" then produces and starts firing Guns Akimbo the two pulse pistols he had strapped to his thighs.

Kings of Metal by Manowar. The line "We got the biggest amps, man they blast." But the whole song, as well as Manowar image in general, are an example of this, or more suitably, Not compensating for anything trope. As those tropes are close, in case of Manowar, they complete each other.

The band Machine Gun Fellatio.

The Ludo song Go-Getter Greg: "I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip, I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it."

A literal Phallic Weapon: One legendary headline of "Bild", the German tabloid, was "Totschlag mit Penis", which is unfortunately untranslatable: "Second Degree Murder with Penis" does not insinuate, like in the German version, that the poor woman was clobbered to death with a Gag Penis. note If you insist to know, a blowjob went south...squicky enough.

Poetry

The poem The Love That Dares to Speak It's Name plays heavily on the phallic nature of the centurion's spear. Perhaps to be expected, as the poem relates the repeated sexual penetration of the corpse of a recently crucified man, including seemingly in wounds inflicted with a spear.

MechWarrior gives us the Flea light mech, with a... rather unfortunately placed flamethrower.

Most Titans in Warhammer 40,000 tend to have sensible weapon placements, but the Imperator◊ class decided to cram one extra cannon in an undignified location. The Orks' Gargants aren't much better, and though their biggest weapons are called "belly guns," depending on the model they may protrude from fairly law on the Gargant's bulk, or even from beneath its armored skirt. On a more organic note, the Tyranids' ranged weapon symbiotes tend to operate through muscle spasms, spurting liquids, and writhing payloads.

The original proposed covers for GURPS 4th edition were not very well received, and the reasons included a rocket launcher in one of the illustrations that quickly became known as the "dildo gun", and an off-brand lightsaber being held in a rather suggestive manner.

The Punisher shapeshifter toy has a crotch cannon, it was intended to be transformed into a pistol in the same manner as Megatron, but it somehow becomes a crotch cannon instead. It's still technically a "pistol" however.

This was allegedly the reason why Hasbro's Oozinator◊ caused such controversy. It was a large squirt gun that was filled with clear white ooze.The website's promotional page for the product supposedly read:

Ad: Sneak up on your opponents with a surprise bio-ooze attack! Just when they think you’re coming at ‘em with water, blast ‘em with a shot of icky bio-ooze! Shoot out globs of gooey bio-ooze and then drench ‘em with water! It’s a double blast attack that’ll keep your opponents on their toes and running during every water fight. With the OOZINATOR blaster you don’t just get soaked, you get drenched!

Video Games

The box art for Duke Nukem Forever shows a cocky Duke from a low angle, with his smoking gun over his crotch and a female hand grabbing his waist. Yeah… subtle.

A quote from Kreia about the lightsaber in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: "For the male, it seems to have inordinate importance. But we shall leave such male preoccupations for philosophers and cultural historians."

When visiting the Citadel for the first time in Mass Effect, the crew of the almost tiny Fragile SpeedsterNormandy is deeply impressed when passing The BattlestarDestiny Ascension, the biggest warship in the entire galaxy. Which leads pilot Joker to one of his usual moments of snarking:

Ashley: Look at the size of that ship! Joker: Well, size isn't everything. Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker? Joker: I'm just saying: You have to have firepower, too!

He gets to prove it too—he and the Normandy get to deliver the killing blow to Sovereign.

Though ironically, the shape of the Destiny Ascension is far more feminine than most other warship designs.

A nice Renegade response from Female Shepard at Omega from Mass Effect 2:

This "Mecha Dress-up" flash game gives you an achievement for building a robot with a minigun between its legs; the achievement's description is "why would you put it there?!"

Rospark from Mega Man ZX Advent, in his humanoid flower form, has a very pink phallic rod in between his legs, alongside another one jutting out of his head, that he uses to discharge electric blasts. He also has some homosexual undertones, given from how he enjoys fighting Grey and treating Ashe like she's full of cooties. Oh, and he's a rose.

Mentioned by name in the obscure first person arena-shooter XS. All of the contenders in the game are given biographies, which may include audio logs from a arena physician or the local psychologist. One of the contenders is a large Snake Person, in the sense that he has a snake's head and lower body, but a scaly humanoid torso. He favors a shotgun. The (female) psychologist actually gets upset at the excess of phallic imagery and declares him a "Freudian mess who uses his gun to spew all over the audien—" at which point she is cut off by the interviewer hurriedly turning off the microphone.

In Dead Rising 2, the psychopath Randy Tuggman wields a chainsaw that he likes to hold at crotch level and makes pelvic thrusts while revving it.

In Dead Rising 3, the psychopath Dylan Fuentes, who personifies Lust of the Seven Deadly Sins, wields a flamethrower mounted on his crotch that resembles a cock and balls.

Star Control has the Syreen, a mostly-female race, use ships that look like vibrators. They're even ribbed and are called Penetrators. It's not clear if they've always been this sex-obsessed, or if it's the recent shortage of men (out of about 10,000 survivors of their race, only 500 are male).

In Sunset Overdrive, the Flaming Compensator is this. As it has two feeding mechanisms that look like testicles. It's actually a reference to compensating for having a small penis, with big balls.

Silent Hill 2's main antagonist, Pyramid Head, has a long phallic blade as a main weapon. This ties into the fact that all of the villains are metaphorically connected to James, usually by sexual undertones....

In No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Travis's Beam Sword recharges through shaking a dynamo within it. The way Travis charges it, however, has him holding the sword in front of his pelvic area, pointing outwards and slightly upwards, and him vigorously shaking it back and forth panting heavily, making it look amazingly like A Date with Rosie Palms. As Travis is vulnerable when he's recharging, and the sword's power frequently runs out in the heat of battle, you'll most often see Travis performing this animation in a remote corner, facing a wall.

Web Animation

As the Death Battle between He-Man and Lion-O features two muscular, scantily-clad men wielding huge swords, one of which extends, the phallic weapon jokes were pretty much inevitable:

Girl Genius. Castle Heterodyne is acting as Shipper on Deck for Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, pointing out that he comes from a powerful family, is already smitten with her, and packs a very powerful Death Ray. As Agatha has a thing for death rays, the last one gives her pause.

Castle: Heh heh, all the Wulfenbach sparks were known for their over-sized machinery you know.

Lampshaded and inverted in this (SFW) Oglaf strip, where a "Glamazon" criticizes a female warrior's sword for being a phallic weapon, and claims that women should using engulfing weapons like the whip, net, lasso and... throwinganus.

Alt Text: The Glamazons don't follow fashion — they set traps for it and wear its shiny pelt.

Literalized in It's Always Time: Strawberry Banana (a.k.a. SB) (she's made of Jell-O; It Makes Sense in Context) is a woman with a penis. A detachable penis. And when she detaches it, it turns into a sword.

An over-the-top feminist review of Portal uses this in a ridiculously contrived analysis regarding the misogynist implications of shooter games. It then praised Portal for it's feminist aspects, that included the portals' semblance to a vagina.

Many Japanese netizens have mocked the Xianxingzhe (or Senkousha in Japanese), China's first bipedal humanoid robot, for (among other things) having protruding joints near its crotch. Many parody videos and games of the robot have interpreted the protrusion as a powerful Wave Motion Gun called the "Chinese Cannon".

One web video on the Cracked website has a panel discussing the possibility that James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, might have been a little too fond of children. They then run with this theory and interpret everything long and pointed in the 1953 Disney movie as a phallic symbol of some sort—everything from pine trees to Captain Hook's sword.

Percy from Critical Role managed to avoid jokes about his guns for 27 Episodes, but they couldn't put it off forever. After the List misfires twice in one encounter in Episode 28, he says "I swear, this never happens to me."

In Pixiv, this is denoted as "中華キャノン" note lit. Chinese Cannon, the term was originated from the waist joint equipped on the robot "先行者" (Xianxingzhe) developed in China. However, due to the camera angle, it shows an uncanny resemblance to a crotch cannon. Afterward, Aoshima Bunka Kyozai released a model kit based on the Xianxingzhe robot in July 2002 on Japanese magazine Netrun, namely "Chinese Cannon", with a crotch cannon firing a rocket◊, hence the namesake of the tag.

Dr Brain: Surrender now or my Titan rocket will penetrate your defenses. What good are your Freudian analyses in the face of my long red rocket...I don't mean it that way...surrender now or my punishment will be stiff indeed...

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